# Christina O’Reilly

> Christina O’Reilly is Hootsuite’s Chief Marketing Officer, a Canadian technology marketing executive whose career spans PeopleSoft, Microsoft, SAP, Two Hat, Gensquared, EY and Pythian. Trained in criminology before moving into marketing, she has built a practice around understanding behavior, clarifying complex go-to-market stories and connecting data to business outcomes. She has also hosted the Data-Driven Leaders podcast, earned a Hermes Creative Award, and was recognized by Analytics Insight among its 10 Most Impactful Women in Technology in 2022.

- **Role:** Chief Marketing Officer at Hootsuite
- **Organizations:** Hootsuite, Pythian, EY, Gensquared, Two Hat Security, SAP, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, CORinsights
- **Education:** Bachelor of Social Sciences in Criminology, University of Ottawa, Marketing Management program, George Brown College
- **Known for:** Named one of Analytics Insight’s 10 Most Impactful Women in Technology in 2022., Finalist for Executive of the Year by Women in AI North America., Recipient of a Hermes Creative Award for marketing and communications work connected to Two Hat’s online-safety positioning.

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Built experience across sales collaboration, events and demand generation, later holding marketing leadership roles at PeopleSoft, Microsoft and SAP.
- **2017-2018** — Contributed to the City of Kelowna’s Imagine Kelowna community-vision work and other complex municipal projects; served on the board of BrainTrust Canada.
- **2020** — Led marketing at AI content-moderation company Two Hat and helped run an award-winning global message-amplification campaign tied to online-safety policy initiatives.
- **2021-2022** — Served as CMO of data and analytics consultancy Gensquared and hosted its Data-Driven Leaders podcast.
- **2022** — Gensquared was acquired by EY; O’Reilly was recognized among Analytics Insight’s 10 Most Impactful Women in Technology.
- **2023** — Joined Pythian as Senior Vice President of Marketing to lead global marketing across data, analytics, AI and cloud services.
- **2026** — Joined Hootsuite as Chief Marketing Officer, leading global go-to-market strategy and brand positioning.

## Achievements

- Named one of Analytics Insight’s 10 Most Impactful Women in Technology in 2022.
- Finalist for Executive of the Year by Women in AI North America.
- Recipient of a Hermes Creative Award for marketing and communications work connected to Two Hat’s online-safety positioning.
- Hosted the Data-Driven Leaders podcast, interviewing business and technology leaders about data-driven culture.
- Held senior marketing roles across enterprise and high-growth technology organizations for more than two decades.
- Helped market two companies that were later acquired: Two Hat by Microsoft and Gensquared by EY.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Joined Hootsuite as Chief Marketing Officer and described her remit as clarifying go-to-market strategy, competitive position and marketing’s contribution to business outcomes.
- **2026-06** — Serving as CMO as Hootsuite launched its Social OS and Wisdom, a social-first AI agent built around live social signals.
- **2026-09** — Scheduled to appear at Brandweek 2026 for a session titled ‘Beyond the Feed: Turning Social Signal Into Strategy.’

## Links

- Website: https://www.hootsuite.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinaoreilly

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